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{"initiatives": [{"Title": "Keep water in public hands!", "Organisation": "African Center for Advocacy (ACA)", "Location": "YAOUNDE, CAMEROON", "Location - geographic": "", "": "", "Category": "WATER ", "Year": "2021\u20132022", "Website": "http://www.we-advocate.org/", "Text": "WHAT\u2019S UNIQUE ABOUT THE INITIATIVE?\nTen years of water privatization have affected about 43% of the Cameroonian population, with women and children bearing the brunt. In 2019, African Center for Advocacy (ACA) launched the \u00abKeep Water in Public Hands\u00bb campaign with a coalition of civil society, media, unions and grassroots organisations to stop the corporate agenda of forcing the government to privatize water. This movement has contributed to stopping water privatization and to advancing the human right to water in Cameroon.\nMOST OUTSTANDING RESULTS\nThe conditions that prompted Cameroon to privatise the public water service in 2008 are once again multiplying on the ground. Between untimely water cuts, deterioration of installations and bad management practices, the public company (Camwater) which produces and distributes drinking water, is struggling to provide it in quantity and quality to an ever-growing population.\n\nBack then, privatization was supposed to deliver improved infrastructure and lower prices \u2014 but neither materialized. Though the water was renationalized in 2018, numerous shortcomings continue to hamper the provision of clean water to the population.\n\nIn 2022, Camwater confessed its role in the drinking water crisis. According to the company, the episodic shortages observed in the capital are mainly linked to the numerous malfunctions of the Akomnyada water collection and treatment station, located 35 km east of the city. According to official figures, the demand for drinking water in Yaound\u00e9 and Mbalmayo, two towns supplied by the Akomnyada catchment station, is currently around 300,000 m3 per day.\n\nFaced with the state\u2019s \u201cinability\u201d to effectively provide public water service, the African Center for Advocacy (ACA) has increased lobbying, media advocacy as well as labour engagements to push for reduced taxes for any household that consumes less than 20 cubic meters of water per month. ACA has enjoined the national water distribution company to establish water pricing by categorizing the price per cubic meter of water by the type of customer. This greatly increased the number of low-income households connected to the water system. They are also monitoring privatization threats and pressing the government to invest on rehabilitation projects and taking responsibility.\n\nThe ACA will not give up its fight as long as the cloud of privatisation hangs over the water sector in Cameroon. Their goal is the recognition of the right to water in the Cameroonian constitution.", "Population size": ""}, {"Title": "Valencia walks towards the future: the cycling revolution in Valencia", "Organisation": "Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan (PMUS)", "Location": "VALENCIA, SPAIN", "Location - geographic": "", "": "", "Category": "ENERGY", "Year": "2021\u20132022", "Website": "https://www.valencia.es/val/inici", "Text": "WHAT\u2019S UNIQUE ABOUT THE INITIATIVE?\nFor decades, Valencia was a city that revered motor vehicles and boasted about the quantity and fluidity of its traffic. However, in the summer of 2015, the municipal authorities took a step towards reversing this situation. The climate emergency scenario demanded it, but also the desire to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants, who, with the promotion of cycling and the new pedestrianisation, save energy and improve their economy.\nMOST OUTSTANDING RESULTS\nValencia is a city where public space once again belongs to citizens, rather than cars, and people are no longer pedestrians. The sustainable mobility promoted by Valencia City Council has brought about ambitious and fundamental changes that generate individual and collective health. Apart from urban planning focused on responding to the climate emergency, it is necessary to change
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